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Hoisting vs Unfurling - What's the difference?

hoisting | unfurling |

As verbs the difference between hoisting and unfurling

is that hoisting is present participle of lang=en while unfurling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between hoisting and unfurling

is that hoisting is the act by which something is hoisted while unfurling is the act by which something is unfurled.

hoisting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is hoisted.
  • * 2007 , Lisa N. Trivedi, Clothing Gandhi's Nation: Homespun and Modern India
    • The Madras government allowed flag hoistings in particular circumstances

    unfurling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is unfurled.
  • * 1849 , Christopher Wordsworth, Lectures on the Apocalypse (page 466)
    • Are there not here some sounds of a gathering together of armies, some blasts of the trumpets of war, some unfurlings of hostile banners, some noise of chariots and tramplings of horses rushing to the battle?